Many times you may have asked yourself a lot of questions on why you should get a degree in humanities and social sciences. Worry not because according to students in Moi University, this degree will really help you grow into a fully integrated person who will be so useful in the society after the four-year course.
Just so you know, these are some of the reasons as to why many students in Moi University take social sciences;
It helps them gain marketable skills
A larger percentage of employers would recommend a liberal arts education to prepare for a success in today's global economy. According to the students, this degree enhances them with critical thinking skills, complex problem-solving skills, and oral communications. As a matter of fact, many of them will get employed just after school. Now let's come to think of it, who will not want to get his or her first cash in the first days after completion of studies? I hope no one. So they strongly believe that they have made the right choice.
It helps them make a life, not just a living
A degree in social sciences prepares students not only to make a living, but also make a life. It can, for example, prepare students to reckon with a broad variety of lived experiences—work, love, death, joy, creativity, sorrow, faith, passion, pain, injustice, disagreement, conflict, intolerance, pleasure, forgiveness, ethics, values, and all of the myriad choices that make up the human experience. So it helps them ready for a well-lived life.
It prepares them for a life of learning
It creates habits of mind that facilitate a life of learning and growth, professional and personal. The course exercises the muscle of the mind, preparing it not just for specialized tasks and abilities, but also for learning itself, making learning faster, more thorough, and more permanent. Indeed, the skills a liberal arts degree develops help students confront their own and others’ humanity, not just earn a paycheck.
Students develop multiple lenses for looking at the human experience
The kind of interdisciplinary thinking the students get in Moi University makes them better observers not only of the phenomena but also of the very lenses through which they observe. Students become critical readers not only of human experience but also of the lenses through which they themselves interpret or 'read' the world. This, of itself, enables students to become better friends, partners, parents, citizens, and human beings. Isn’t that what education, at its best, is for?
It is a fact of no doubt that students who have done this degree at Moi University, have become very important and prominent people in the country.